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VP of Technical OperationsTumblr

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As VP of Technical Operations, you will manage a highly talented team for one of the internet?s most trafficked consumer websites.

What You?ll Do:

Provide support and manage all of Tumblr?s technical operations globally
Manage a team of engineers responsible for all technical infrastructure operations including data centers, networking, servers and applications
Establish strategic vision and innovation for Tumblr, and will be responsible for making sure that the Tumblr service never fails
Ensure that Tumblr can scale appropriately and handle huge spikes in traffic
Provide leadership to all aspects of the company?s Infrastructure and Engineering Teams
What We're Looking For:

The ideal candidate should have led teams of 40 plus technologists and managed an annual budget of $10M plus
Proven leadership and technology general management experience and have previously managed an infrastructure that allows a team to scale and innovate
A strong roll-up-your sleeves mentality
Smart, engaging, driven and technically savvy
All about the details and able to work closely with other team members
Familiarity with Facebook, MySpace and Twitter's open source infrastructure projects
Ability to build and manage a team continuously growing
Tools We Like:

Nginx, Varnish and HAProxy
Memcached and Redis
MySQL (InnoDB)
Puppet
PHP5 at its furthest extent
git and GitHub
Ruby, Scala and PHP
Asynchronous services and queues
Hadoop, Pig, ZooKeeper, and other Java/JVM projects
Nagios/Icinga, OpenTSDB
Founded by David Karp in New York City in 2007, Tumblr is a microblogging platform that allows users to effortlessly share anything. Tumblr now hosts over 70 million blogs with over 34 billion posts to date. Our pageview to engineer ratio is 0.5 billion PV per month to 1 engineer. This means every line of code every developer writes has a huge impact. We are focused on building tools and technologies that will advance the state of the art in dealing with massively scaled websites as we quickly grow past 50,000 requests and 1,400 posts per second. We are also excited to deliver a range of new products that will enable users to share their own creative content, discover content, and connect to one another in new ways.